Comcast Corporation and the 2012 FEC cycle

The Comcast Corporation × 2012 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Comcast Corporation and 2012 yields $350,983. That is 281 itemized lines and 122 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Cable-and-media employer text can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping COMCAST CORPORATION. Related employer words, abbreviations, and occupation titles are not added. The 122 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $3,868,762. Drop the string and you see the entire 2012 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Comcast Corporation money versus 2012

A lifetime figure of $3,868,762 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2012 is $350,983, about 9.1%. The leftover $3,517,779 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$3,868,762 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 9.1% describes 2012 inside Comcast Corporation, nothing else. $3,868,762 is the running sum for exact string COMCAST CORPORATION. 2012 contributes $350,983 (9.1%); the complement is $3,517,779 (90.9%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $350,983

Packet arithmetic: $350,983 ÷ 281 ≈ $1,249 per contribution; $350,983 ÷ 122 ≈ $2,877 per donor; 281 ÷ 122 ≈ 2.3 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 122 unique donors produced 281 itemized receipts. The implied 2.3 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2012 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Comcast Corporation and the 2012 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is COMCAST CORPORATION in 2012: $350,983, 281 contributions, 122 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. This packet does not classify 2012 beyond the year number in the facts. The 2012 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps Comcast Corporation on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $350,983 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2012 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Comcast Corporation entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $350,983 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 281 or $350,983. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $350,983. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping COMCAST CORPORATION, election cycle 2012, $350,983, 281 contributions, 122 donors (9.1% of $3,868,762 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $350,983, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Comcast Corporation 2012 for the overlay, Comcast Corporation for other years, 2012 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: Comcast Corporation in 2012 is $350,983 from 281 itemized individual contributions and 122 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $3,868,762 across cycles, so 2012 is about 9.1% and other windows hold $3,517,779 (90.9%). The grouping is cable-and-media employer text, not a Comcast PAC, a broadcasting NAICS rollup, or Comcast without Corporation as a sibling key. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $1,249; mean per donor about $2,877; about 2.3 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $350,983.

Questions

How much did Comcast Corporation donors give in 2012?

$350,983 is the itemized-individual total for COMCAST CORPORATION in 2012. Volume: 281 contributions, 122 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $350,983, 281 contributions, and 122 donors in the Comcast Corporation × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,868,762.

What share of Comcast Corporation FEC money is 2012?

2012 holds $350,983 of the $3,868,762 stored for Comcast Corporation, roughly 9.1%. The leftover $3,517,779 is other windows on the Comcast Corporation hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $350,983, 281 contributions, and 122 donors in the Comcast Corporation × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,868,762.

Does this include only Comcast Corporation employees?

The grouping is cable-and-media employer text, not a verified roster. 281 itemized lines from 122 donors produced $350,983 in 2012. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $350,983, 281 contributions, and 122 donors in the Comcast Corporation × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,868,762.

Where is the overlay for the Comcast Corporation 2012 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Comcast Corporation 2012, Comcast Corporation, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $350,983 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $350,983, 281 contributions, and 122 donors in the Comcast Corporation × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,868,762.